NEW YORK and TEL AVIV, Israel, Illusive Networks®, the leader in deception-based threat detection, today announced the release of a new research report carried out by leading IT analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) and funded by Illusive Networks, exploring user opinion and awareness about deception technology.
The research discovered a vast gulf in incident response times between those who have deployed deception technology on their networks and those who haven’t. Most crucially, the study found that enterprises leveraging deception detected attackers lurking within their networks 12 times faster than those who were unacquainted with the technology.
The EMA study, available here, based on over 200 interviews with cybersecurity and IT professionals about their use of deception technology as part of their threat defense strategy, found that the mean time to detect threats inside an organization’s networks was over sixty days, compared with only five and a half days using deception. In addition, 70% of respondents that considered themselves highly familiar with deception technology rated their organizations as highly effective at detecting in-network threats, whereas that figure was only 49% when also including users less familiar or unaware of deception technology.
Overall, the research found that the use of deception continues to gain acceptance among the most forward-leaning security operations teams that are trying to get out ahead of attackers and keep them from doing serious damage. Other key findings from the report:
“The constant stream of high-profile breaches making headlines show that cyberattackers continue to leverage high dwell times to move laterally towards the critical data they want to steal,” notes Paula Musich, the research director in security and risk management at Enterprise Management Associates. “The fact that deception technology has been found to reduce attacker dwell time by over 90% is a significant sign of cybersecurity progress that organizations should take seriously.”
“Cybersecurity has traditionally been like a game of Whack-a-Mole – as soon as organizations tamp down one threat, up pops another one,” notes Ofer Israeli, Founder and CEO of Illusive Networks. “This EMA research makes clear that deception truly turns the tables on attackers, forcing them to reveal themselves much earlier from the breach beachhead, finally stacking the odds in defenders’ favor.”
Access the report, “A Definitive Market Guide to Deception Technology,” and take a deep dive into the benefits of implementing deception by visiting: https://go.illusivenetworks.com/ema-deception-technology-market-guide
Research Methodology
Illusive Networks and several other deception technology vendors sponsored this research carried out by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). EMA gathered data in June 2019 from 208 respondents whose organizations primarily serve customers in North America and a majority of whom work in IT/IS/telecom or cybersecurity roles within the IT organization.
Illusive Networks®, was just named Recommended Product in SC Media’s wide-ranging review of deception network tools. SC Labs awarded the Illusive platform 5-stars in all rating categories; features, documentation, value for money, performance, support, and ease of use. For a full copy of the SC Lab report, please visit https://go.illusivenetworks.com/sc-labs-recommended-deception-product
About Illusive Networks
Illusive Networks empowers security teams to reduce the business risk created by today’s advanced, targeted threats by destroying an attacker’s ability to move laterally toward critical assets. Illusive reduces the attack surface to preempt attacks, detects unauthorized lateral movement early in the attack cycle, and provides rich, real-time forensics that enhance response and inform cyber resilience efforts. Agentless and AI-driven, Illusive technology enables organizations to proactively intervene in the attack process, avoid operational disruption and business losses, while functioning with greater confidence in today’s complex, hyper-connected world.